Interview with Paul Mc Loughlin by Denisse-Meda Bucur
1. What was the most critical crossroad in your professional life?
I came to poetry first as a reader (D H Lawrence / Sylvia Plath / T S Eliot / Alexander Pope) but only later in my thirties did I turn with any degree of seriousness to writing. I attended a couple of week-long Arvon Foundation courses at Ted Hughes’s old house at Lumb Bank in Yorkshire (with Michael ...meda bucura

2016-02-28

Haiku contest 2016The editing board of the Journal of Romanian-Japanese cul-tual interferences HAIKU. is continuing to organize the annual competition for haiku poems in fixed form, during the first tri-mester ...by Maria Tirenescu

Happy New Year, 2016!
May this new year give all of the things you rightly deserve,
may your days be merry and bright,
may we all be ten times better off at this time next year!
Editorial ...
by Eugenia Reiter

Did I Mention the Free Wine?
Felix Dennis has established himself as one of the most popular and critically acclaimed poets of recent times and his poetry tours have entertained thousands of poetry lovers on both sides of ...
by Corina Gina Papouis

Happy New Year!
We wish you all the best to reach your fondest goals and we hope for your fulfillment, contentment, happiness, a better new year than you’ve ever had before, enjoy every moment ...
by Eugenia Reiter

National Poetry Day Live
Time:06 October · 13:00 - 18:00
Location:Clore Ballroom Southbank Centre
London, United Kingdom
Created by:
The Poetry Society
More info
The Poetry Society and Southbank Centre present: ...
by Gunsel DJEMAL

In Our Own Words
After a whole year reading this book, I have taken the time to make a selection to share with you, out of this great Anthology brought to us by Marlow Peerse Weaver.
As for this 8th Volume, ...
by Edilberto González Trejos

Author: Jay Parini
Taken from (c) THE CHRONICE REVIEW
Poetry is conversation, and poets like to sit at an imaginary table, agreeing with what was said by other poets, chafing at their arguments, avoiding or responding (directly or indirectly) to their assertions. ...

The editing board of the Journal of Romanian-Japanese cul-tual interferences HAIKU. is continuing to organize the annual competition for haiku poems in fixed form, during the first tri-mester of 2016.
The competition is open to all poets who will send on the adress ...

The competition has a first prize of Ł5,000 and the closing date is 31 October 2014
You can enter online, or download a postal entry form here.
Please make sure you have read the rules before entering.
Judges
The judges of the 2014 National ...

"what does the LORD require of you but to do justice..."
One of the Bible's (OT and/or NT) foremost statements, mentions god's topmost requirement from mankind, which is "to love/do justice..."
Well, if mankind's self-righteous, mostly fundamentalist "christian" ...

The poems must be unpublished previously in media, volumes or on the internet.
Entrants: competition open to anyone
Submission Period: 1-28 Februrary 2015
Language: English (with variant in native language)
Theme: free
Style contemporary:
three lines
within ...

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